Friday, April 28, 2017

FalseBook

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Let The Zuck Do It

“We take our responsibilities on false news very seriously. False news hurts everyone because it makes our community uninformed, it hurts our community, it hurts countries. We know that people want to see accurate news on Facebook, and that’s what we want them to see.“[W]e definitely don’t want to be the arbiter of the truth.”

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